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MySpace Makes it to Top 10 Internet Sites

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the emo-teens-have-spoken dept.

prostoalex writes "Nielsen//NetRatings Top 10 is a monthly rating of top 10 Internet destinations. Generally dominated by Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, AOL, eBay and similar major destinations, the list had a newcomer in March of this year. MySpace.com is 10th most visited Web site, losing to #9 Real.com only by 600,000 unique visits per month."

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  1. Re:But by saltydogdesign · · Score: 5, Informative

    Duh. Naked teenagers.

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  2. You're an order of magnitude off by shreevatsa · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unbelievably, according to Alexa, Slashdot is only the 301st on the Global top 500. It's not in the top 100 Us sites, nor in the top 100 English sites.

    1. Re:You're an order of magnitude off by Cirvam · · Score: 4, Informative

      yeah but that only counts traffic from people with the alexa toolbar installed, which I would assume very few people here have. Due to it being (or used to be?) spyware.

  3. The Olden Days by thejeffer · · Score: 2, Informative

    I liked myspace better in the olden days... when it was called Geocities.

    Seriously. Myspace is just the whole "make your own homepage" concept all over again, but this time with a built in way to search for other homepages that look as crappy as yours.

    OMG! U got a [insert craptacular emo/hiphop/boy band] vide0 on yur page 2! Letz like be friendz forever!

  4. Re:in other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Who the hell goes to real.com?

    Two things:
    1. I believe the Real Player loads the real.com page in its "minibrowser", so anyone who uses Real and doesn't shut off the minibrowser goes there regularly.
    2. These ratings are generally gathered from clueless people who have let the survey companies install web bugs on their computer. These are exactly the kind of people who use Real Player.

  5. This is scary, because they censor by giminy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Myspace is owned by Rupert Murdoch & Company. Before anyone confuses me with a conspiracy theorist, they really do censor what you can write via Myspace. Article text is here: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interes ting-people/200601/msg00095.html .

    I tried to post the above article on my Myspace message board, but it never actually gets posted (gets filtered out). I ran it through a l33tsp34k filter and it will post just fine.

    Kind of scary, if only because people probably don't expect the service to do that kind of filtering.

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